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Alun wrote:
Mike, how is it anti-US to point that the world doesn't revolve around America? Of course, if you think it does, then you're probably beyond help. Do you know how all Americans think or feel about whatever issues? I wouldn't presume to assume what "every Canadian thinks" When I've been in Canada, I've met lots of nice folk with lots of differing opinions - Just like us. My boy went to Hockey school there every summer, and we often tagged along for vacation. BTW, speaking of mistaken impressions, every time we went there, the darn temperature was in the 90's. Canada is sure one HOT country!! 8^) - Mike KB3EIA - |
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Leo wrote: On 12 Feb 2004 00:00:02 GMT, (N2EY) wrote: In article , Leo writes: As of our last restructuring,Canadian licences (actually, "Certificates of Proficiency") are also valid for life - no renewal required. If there are no renewals, how does IC know when a ham dies? Or is the situation like Japan, where the license is only cancelled if someone makes the effort to tell the govt. (with proper documentation) that the ham in question is, indeed, dead, and to cancel the license? Three ways: - the family notifies IC that their beloved ham relative is no longer a user of oxygen. Well, technically not quite correct. Oxygen just used in a different way - ick. Perhaps that the ham has assumed room temperature? 8^)\ - Mike KB3EIA - |
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"Leo" wrote in message ... On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:30:43 GMT, "Dee D. Flint" wrote: Agreed that the US is obviously a major player - but I'm sure that even if they had gone their own way, the rest of the world would not necessarily follow. The role of agencies like the ITU is to coordinate global resources so as to prevent chaos on the bands - not to act as an agent of US policy. If your strongest player is sitting on the sidelines or playing for the other team (i.e. government & commercial interests in the case of ham radio), it's still possible to win the game but it is much harder. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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"Leo" wrote in message news On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:43:25 -0500, Mike Coslo wrote: Alun wrote: Mike, how is it anti-US to point that the world doesn't revolve around America? Of course, if you think it does, then you're probably beyond help. It's a troll, Alun. Go post the same message anywhere on netnews and watch the reaction. Mike, I didn't take Alun's message as a troll - just a response in context to the thread to a rather lofty assertion that without the ARRL (and by definition, the US Amateur Radio Service, since that is all the ARRL influences), the world would never have known the joys of Amateur Radio. Which is just a tad jingoistic, I'd say - and nigh-on impossible to substantiate without resorting to theory, opinion and conjecture. If you don't believe it, then you're probably beyond help. Of course the world doesn't revolve around the US. The world revolves around it's axis. How is the ARRL proposal going to affect the rest of the world's amateurs anyway? It won't. Yet, according to the comments earlier in the thread, historically, without the ARRL there would be no amateur radio anywhere in the world. Really? I don't think so. - Mike KB3EIA - We are not saying that the ARRL was the only thing that made this happen. Simply that they were a significant player in the US and that the US was a significant player in the world. Without the ARRL, US amateurs would have had a much tougher time. If the US amateur community had been seriously weakened, it would have affect to some degree the amateur community in the rest of the world. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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In article , Alun
writes: They [the ARRL] even claim they were responsible for the no-code licence, Where, Alun? Can you show where ARRL claims credit for the Tech losing its code test? when the truth is the FCC would have introduced one 20 years earlier but for the league's opposition! Not true! The Tech lost its code test in early 1991. 20 years earlier was 1971. The first FCC attempt at a nocodetest amateur license was in 1975, and if enacted would have not taken effect sooner than 1976. That's 15 years, not 20. And in 1975, ARRL polled its entire membership with a detailed questionnaire. A large and pervasive majority opposed a nocodetest ham license of any kind. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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Alun wrote:
Trust me. All things pass. The Roman empire, the British empire ... you get the idea. Let's try an experiment. Swallow an avocado seed. Report back in a few days and let us know the results. Dave K8MN |
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"garigue" wrote in news:UOBWb.11368$uV3.27753
@attbi_s51: The price we paid. The @#%#&$& code test! Alun .... We really don't have to tolerate that type of language on this newsgroup ..... I wish more guys would use the above symbols than the language ....then we could use our imagination. I translate the above string as "necessary" give or take a few characters. God Bless 73 Tom KI3R If you think I meant necessary I might have to add a few real characters in there to dispel that notion! |
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:04:35 -0500, Mike Coslo
wrote: Alun wrote: Mike, how is it anti-US to point that the world doesn't revolve around America? Of course, if you think it does, then you're probably beyond help. Do you know how all Americans think or feel about whatever issues? I wouldn't presume to assume what "every Canadian thinks" When I've been in Canada, I've met lots of nice folk with lots of differing opinions - Just like us. My boy went to Hockey school there every summer, and we often tagged along for vacation. BTW, speaking of mistaken impressions, every time we went there, the darn temperature was in the 90's. Canada is sure one HOT country!! 8^) Not right now! We're in the 20's at the moment..... Brrrrrrrrr.....! - Mike KB3EIA - 73, Leo |
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